Word: 3m
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...unarmored van was stolen when the driver stopped to buy a newspaper only a short distance from 3M Security Printing and Systems Ltd, which produces the new electronic passports. The robber jumped into the van and forced the second deliveryman in the passenger seat to lower his head onto the dashboard before assaulting him. He drove a short distance in the van and ran off with the boxes of documents, presumably with the help of an accomplice. The victim suffered minor injuries to his head and shoulders. This was a traumatic experience for the passenger, said police...
...risk for their freedom. You devoured Harry Potter, which was written by a woman who wanted to write serious novels until a wizard entered her train compartment and made her write wonderful ones instead. You owe the existence of the Post-it notes in your binder to the 3M researcher who tried to find a stronger glue and changed the world by failing: he found a weaker one instead...
...Carlton said. She added that this track record may have helped steer Harvard to further license Whiteside’s lab’s developments. The research obtained from Whitesides’ lab will be developed through Nano-Terra’s existing relationships with large companies such as 3M and Merck KGaA, and with the U.S. government—specifically the Department of Defense. These partnerships are expected to produce products in 18 to 36 months, according to the press release. While many of Harvard’s schools have strict rules about professors partnering with companies that they...
SCOTCHGARD In 1953 Patsy Sherman, one of the few women chemists at a major corporation, was researching in 3M's labs ways to create a rubber material that aircraft fuel couldn't destroy. Her assistant accidentally knocked over a bottle of synthetic latex onto her new sneakers. Soap, alcohol and solvents couldn't remove the compound, but Sherman also noticed it resisted dirt. So she and a colleague improved its liquid repellency, and three years later 3M sold it on the market as a suede protectant. In 1973 Sherman obtained a patent for it to preserve carpets...
...company, which has annual revenues of nearly $10 million, has distributors in 24 other countries, and its films have been dubbed into 13 languages, from Portuguese to Cantonese. Video Arts opened its first U.S. office, in Chicago, last January. It has 7,000 American clients. Among them: General Motors, 3M and Sheraton hotels. They rent Cleese's films for as much as $180 a week or buy them for about $650 each. Saks Fifth Avenue bought a copy of a popular film called If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour, which deals with customer relations, for each...